I have a friend who has been living in Ghana for a few months and befriended some snake people involved in catching wild ball pythons, among other native snake species! Exciting stuff, he got deets on where ball pythons are found, straight from the trapper/exporter (named Gyasi) himself… I told him to ask for more exact percentages on where they’re mostly found in Africa:
55% in “the bush” near ponds 25% under rocks 10% under trees when they are well fed/full 10% around trash areas (like literally in piles of trash apparently LOL)
No mention of termite mounds or “hiding in holes their whole life”, at least from this trapper. Go figure?
My friend also hasn’t seen very many grassland areas or open areas in Ghana at least where he is, even the drier areas have a lot of low-growing trees.
He went with his trapper group on a short expedition lately too, and that sounded exciting, getting to see the native range and habitat of these animals.
So in conclusion: ball pythons have a very wide natural habitat range! They are not solely ambush predators like gaboons, and definitely not living in holes and hiding their whole life. Funny thing, the trapper mentioned nothing of holes or termite mounds himself haha. I think my friend brought up the “holes and termite mounds” thing, and Gyasi was just like “?????” If the holes thing is from other trappers, it must be only one very small part of how ball pythons live!
Anyway, I think these are exciting and interesting details, because obviously the average keeper/breeder’s knowledge that is constantly preached in the states on their natural habitat and living conditions is quite skewed. And it’s always nice to be more informed about the animals we are keeping and the way they are kept. The more knowledge, the better!
My 200 litre (approx 48 gallon) aquarium. Which is just for guppies (14 full grown and 4 fry) and 6 corydoras catfish. I know it’s not aquascaped super well. But I have noticed in the fish community people WAY overstock guppies because they “can” survive in it for a while and being constant breeders it is easy to let it get out of hand. But I cringe at the tanks with no space for them to get away from each other.
We’ve already made an agreement with our local aquarium store that they will buy any excess fry from us provided they’ve got their colours in. Plus we are looking at getting a second 100 litre tank for the fry we breed to prevent over stocking this tank.
They sure love having all the space to swim around.
Wow, so much space! Are those live plants? Once they fill out some more, this will be a guppy paradise. It’s so good to see so much effort put into a guppy home 🙂
Really nice!
If it comes down to it, you could probably separate the males and females, and you’d still get babies because female guppies can carry sperm and self-fertilize for up to 6 months after mating with a male.
All of these are fantastic and amazing. Some of them are not even all that biologically weird.
I’m pretty sure the bottom two would work out just fine. Sharp eyes, good hearing, face suitable for tearing up meat. The only trouble would be grooming.
The panda one wouldn’t, but only because pandas are Bad at staying alive.
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look, honestly, my Kink™ is aliens with weird/no mouths getting oral for the first time
like they don’t even know this is a thing till their weird human s/o gets there and totally wrecks their shit with their mouth. every time they look at their humans mouth they get turned on just thinking about it. they’re fucking destroyed.
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